2013: The Year the Gun-Control Movement Bounced Back?

The elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn., horrific as it was, didn’t lead to new federal gun restrictions. And in 2013, as we and others reported, states passed more laws loosening gun regulations than tightening them.

But will 2013 be remembered as a failure for the gun-control movement?

According to Adam Winkler, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, probably not.